Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.” Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial. She observes with keen insight, the varied persons, from Indian scouts, to enlisted men, to officer’s wives, who make up the army “family,” on the post. Her sympathetic story about the regimental laundress and midwife, with its sad ending, should take a place in the army’s history of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Summary by Sue Anderson)
Dedication, Preface, Change of StationA BlizzardWestern HospitalityCavalry on the MarchCamping Among the SiouxA Visit to the Village of Two BearsAdventures During the Last Days of the MarchSeparation and ReunionOur New Home at Fort LincolnIncidents of Everyday LifeThe Burning of Our Quarters; Carrying the MailPerplexities and Pleasures of Domestic LifeA "Strong Heart" DanceGarrison LifeGeneral Custer's Literary WorkIndian DepredationsA Day of Anxiety and TerrorImprovements at the Post, and GardeningGeneral Custer's LibraryThe Summer of the Black Hills ExpeditionDomestic TrialsCapture and Escape of Rain-in-the-FaceGarrison AmusementsAn Indian CouncilBreaking Up of the MissouriCurious Characters and Excursionists Among UsReligious Services; Leave of AbsenceA Winter's Journey Across the PlainOur Life's Last Chapter
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